Tonight it is time to sing “Take me to the river,” but don’t drop me in it as Phil Keoghan’s segment on Explorer heads to Peru’s Boiling River, where the temperatures are 200 degrees Fahrenheit, ...

“You’re engulfed in waves of steam and sweating buckets and there’s no cool water anywhere,” Kenneth Feeley, a professor at the University of Miami, tells Mongabay. He’s describing the Boiling River ...

The Boiling River in Peru is a natural wonder. It reaches extreme temperatures. Locals use it for daily needs. Scientist Andres Ruzo investigates its origins. The river is far from volcanic activity.

Deep in the heart of the Amazon, legends tell of a river so hot that it boils from below. As a geoscientist, Andrés Ruzo’s training told him the stories couldn’t be true. But that was before he saw ...

The Boiling River regularly reaches 86C – with drastic consequences for the surrounding rainforest. When you drive towards Peru's Boiling River, along a bumpy, four-hour track through the rainforest, ...

Andrés Ruzo was a child when he first heard the story of a mythical river buried deep in the bowels of the Peruvian Amazon, so hot that it boiled. He never forgot about it. Later in life, as a Ph.D.

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Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Hidden in the dense jungle of the Peruvian Amazon is a percolating, roiling ...

Andrés Ruzo first heard about the Boiling River from his Peruvian grandfather, who shared a legend with him when he was a kid about the Lost City of Gold in Peru. “One of the details of the story was ...

In my teenage years, one of the many fun parts about traveling to Yellowstone National Park's Boiling River for a winter soak was seeing the strange shapes my friends' hair would freeze into during ...

Scientists studying Peru’s Boiling River found 11% fewer tree species for every 1°C (1.8°F) increase in temperature, offering insights into how climate change might affect the Amazon Rainforest. The ...